<blockquote>'The key thing to grasp, I submit, is that the actions the Kremlin has taken to strengthen the system are in fact undermining it. A growing body of evidence suggests that we are dealing with a decaying system which, instead of reforming itself, is pouring its energies into a fight for survival waged with no heed to the damage that this struggle is doing both to the well-being and future of Russian society and to hopes for a decent global order.'
- Lilia Shevtsova,
Russia’s Political System: Imperialism and Decay, January 2015</blockquote>
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'.. “Change the elite” is an old Stalinist tactic too.'</blockquote>